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Behrens Ornaments

Behrens Ornaments™

by SIAS
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Behrens Ornaments Font Family was designed by Peter Behrens, Andreas Stötzner and published by SIAS. Behrens Ornaments contains 1 styles.

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About Behrens Ornaments Font Family


With Behrens Ornaments SIAS presents a historic revival font for the very first time. Peter Behrens (1868–1940) was a German designer and architect rooted in the style of the Art nouveau era but later became one of the most prolific exponents of the modernist movement in the 1920ies and 1930ies. The design of typographic ornaments was one of many fields of his activities. The “Behrens Schmuck” set of adornment types layed dormant for many decades, known only to letterpress freaks and specialists. After 100 years, with this release SIAS celebrates one of the creative masterminds in German design history, unearthing a treasury of 80 unique ornaments and embellishment pieces for nowaday’s use. In order to attain a faithful remake as authentic as possible, the Behrens ornaments have been photographically reproduced from a 1914 specimen book. The outlines have been edited carefully to minimize accidental visual disturbances, yet the main goal was to keep the “smell” of the original letterpress printing as good as possible. If you like fine ornaments you should also have a look at Arthur Ornaments, Andron Ornaments and Leipziger Ornamente.

Designers: Peter Behrens, Andreas Stötzner

Publisher: SIAS

Foundry: SIAS

Design Owner: SIAS

MyFonts debut: Oct 22, 2014

Behrens Ornaments™ is a trademark of Signographisches Institut Andreas Stötzner.

About SIAS

SIAS offers fonts by Leipzig-based font designer Andreas Stötzner. They range from symbol and graphic elements fonts to fancy decorative ones, sans and serif typefaces for body text use. SIAS is well-known for its selection of fonts of the famous Andron series. Andron is praised by scholars around the world as one of the most prolific classical text face for scientific editing. Another highlight is surely Symbojet, a cutting-edge product for information graphics comprising both alphabetical and pictographical characters on a large-scale full Unicode-compliant encoding scheme.

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